Welcome to the Open Door presentation at the Goldman Sachs CommuniCopia and Technology Conference. I have the privilege of introducing Carrie Wheeler, CEO of Open Door Technologies. She served as CFO for Open Door for two years before being appointed at CEO in December of 2022. Before joining Open Door, she was a partner and head of retail and to her investing at TPG Capital.
欢迎参加高盛CommuniCopia和技术会议上的Open Door演讲。我有幸介绍Open Door Technologies的首席执行官卡丽·惠勒。在2022年12月被任命为首席执行官之前,她曾在Open Door担任首席财务官达两年之久。在加入Open Door之前,她是TPG Capital的合伙人兼零售部门主管。
My name is Mike King and I cover Open Door and Real Estate Technology here at Goldman. We have about 35 minutes for today's presentation, inclusive of audience Q&A. So if you have a question at any time during the conference, feel free to raise your hand and we'll get a mic runner over to you.
First, Carrie, thank you so much for making yourself available today. It's really a privilege to have you here at C. Thank you for having me. So Open Door is the leading I-Buyer in the United States, only about 1% of US residential real estate transactions occur online today.
So to start things off, could you talk about Open Door strategy to drive the digitization of US residential real estate? How is Open helping to reduce the complexity and uncertainty that's in the traditional home sales process? Yeah, if you think about US residential real estate, it's one of the by far the largest asset classes out there and yet it's probably the last one to be really seeing any meaningful disruption for digital innovation. And our vision is to create the market leading e-commerce platform for residential real estate so that customers can transact with a whole lot of certainty and simplicity and ease that they can't get through the traditional process.
So you mentioned 1% online, that means 99% of home sellers today start the process, it's a traditional way, they find an agent, they spruce up their own for sale, they do all those risk pairs on spec, they list it, they endure open houses, hopefully they go into contract, hopefully they find a buyer. That in itself is bad, that's no fun. But one for those transactions that we actually fall through, most people don't realize that, so you got to start that whole thing all over again. And for about two thirds of sellers, they're also aspiring home buyers. And so they've got to figure out how do I put those two transactions together? Most people can't afford a double mortgage or a double move. So it's a really windy, uncertain, stressful process.
And our vision is to just take all those friction and pain points out of it, put the process online and allow people to transact again with certain desuplicity and ease. And what we've had to do over the last 10 years is build the pricing system, the transaction system, the operating platform to allow people to do that. The net result though has been a product that people love. I mean, customers love it when they get our product and they transact that way, or in it, from motor score is like 80, which is fantastic. We're fighting against a traditional process that's not so great. So that's really the vision of what we're building over time. Today we're the, by far, the only player that can do this at scale for people. And we think we have incredible markets fit. And ideally over time, two years from now we'll be sitting here and it'll be as easy to sell your home as it is to hell your cab or your groceries online. Right.
And I think it's clear that the home buying and selling process is probably one of the few industries that have yet to be disrupted by digitization and internet still. There clearly are some secular tailwinds there. But there are also some cyclical elements just operating in the US housing market. So could you talk a little bit about how the current macro environment is affecting open door? How has the rise in home prices in 2021? And then the subsequent normalization impacted opens ability to operate. Where are we in the recovery for open in that respect?
Yeah. I mean, I'm sure everyone in this room knows it's been a tumultuous time, right? And the housing market certainly over the last year and we've been in the middle of navigating that. And really our playbook and response to that has just been to really manage for risk. Number one, first order of business was to make sure that we were selling down what we call the old book of inventory as quickly and efficiently as possible. And good news is that's pretty much done. 99% of that is behind us.
Two is just build into a new book of inventory over time with much more attractive margins that were more appropriately priced in this environment. Three was to reduce costs. We have taken a significant amount of our cost structure. We took costs down by 50%. I'm sure we'll talk about that later.
And then four was really to reflect, frankly, in the lessons learned in 2022 as we think about how do we want to manage this business going forward and what are the appropriate risk guardrails we want to put in it in light of all the macrovolentility. So listen, 2022 coming into this year has not been easy. I think that when we look back at this time period and we say this internally, we're going to exit much better for it. We're going to be a better business. We're going to be leaner. We've really focused on refining our execution, focusing on what we control, taking costs out, improving price accuracy, and we're set up really, I think, having come through this period. We're kind of through the worst of it. We're kind of heads all that by now. And looking forward to 2024 and we're in good shape, I think, to start to rescale volumes.
That's great. Against the backdrop of more limited housing inventory and some continued uncertainty and pricing, I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about open doors, home purchase philosophy, and how that may be different relative to years as past.
Yeah. I would say our home purchasing philosophy hasn't changed. What has changed is our risk posture and how we reflect that. And it really manifests itself in how we think about our spreads. And for us, when we say spreads, that's another way of saying, like, what is the discount by which we are buying that home? And we use that to moderate for risk and adjust for risk. If you think about our spreads, the components are, what is the margin target we want to achieve? What are the costs, our holding costs and selling costs? And how accurately can we price that home? We're in control of all those components. But we are not in control of. It's once we own that home, is that home going to appreciate on our watch, or is it going to depreciate? And those are really the factors we've been most focused on as of late given macro volatility.
You mentioned home prices. By far and away, like the biggest volume driver for businesses where spreads sit, and home prices are key input to that, given those building blocks I just mentioned. And when home prices are volatile, spreads are going to widen. So we've been operating with elevated spreads. There were record levels late last year. They've come down significantly. We'll continue to take them down through the balance of the year in Q4. But that home price volatility is tough, right? And we have to reflect that from a risk standpoint, and how we're pricing these assets. And you've seen that show up when our spreads widen. That means our offers are less competitive. That means for your people say yes to us. We convert lower. We have lower volumes. So we want home pricing stability. Good news is I think we're starting. We've been seeing that for a while now.
The other piece of the equation that you mentioned was what's going on with market volumes. And there's a lot of focus and there's a lot of attention on like people aren't moving. The weight lock phenomenon. I can't give up my 3.5% mortgage. Don't blame them. But for us, that's not really the constraint. We are a very small piece of what is this enormous market still. And so long as we can offer to people something for their home with a lower spread, that is really the driver for volumes for us. The market volume factor is really not the headwind. Not when we're like less than 1% share of the market.
That's super interesting. So what are you looking at to see when it's appropriate to further narrow those spreads and increase that acquisition pace over time? And is there a target home inventory balance that you managed to? How do you think about that over the next couple of years?
Yeah, when we talk about our last quarter, right now we're pacing at around 1,000 home acquisitions per month. And we didn't foresee that to change meaningfully and go higher through the balance of the year. And the reason for that is we don't see spreads moving much. And the reason for that is because we are still forecasting for the back half of the year that home prices are going to be modestly negative month to month. And that's pretty consistent with frankly with home seasonality. That's what home prices typically do in the back half of the year. But we're pricing that in today. So that's going to be a headwind to compressing spreads. However, by the time we get into Q4 and we're looking into the first part of next year, again from a home seasonality perspective, that turns into a tailwind. And we should be able to compress spreads on the back of that.
So as we think about going from 1,000 home acquisitions per month, how do we double those? And then the doubling for us is like where we get back to break even. One is compressing spreads. And we'll be able to do that starting in Q4 on the back of home seasonality. We've also made really good progress on improving our own price accuracy and taking cost of the system. That'll also help us reduce spread. So that's 1.
When our spreads are elevated, our paid marketing is less efficient. And so we have been taking down our paid marketing meaningfully this year, down 80%. But again, as we start to compress spreads, that means paid marketing becomes more efficient. We start to turn that back on. You'll see that come back in the system in the first part of next year. And then the third part, it would just be around partnerships, which hopefully we'll talk about a little bit today, because it's a big part of our strategy. But just driving more volume through our partnership channels, aging home builders, and online and real estate portals. And so again, if we're more efficient on the spread side, those channels frankly are also more efficient for us. So all those three reasons.
We peaked at around 5,000, 6,000 home acquisitions per month. So for us, the notion of going from 1,000 to 2,200 is fine. We feel very comfortable with that target, and that takes us back to the break-even level. Great.
And you talked about how narrowing spreads could help improve conversion. But I was wondering also if you could just comment on the value of the open door brand, right? And how that brand has helped to drive traffic into the top of funnel, and some of the efforts that you're making there. Because that seems like a more durable benefit over time, particularly as you spend a lot of time operating in a specific market.
Yeah, I mean, it shows up when you look at awareness over time, and you look at it by market. It sounds kind of tried to say, just give us some more time. But actually time actually does see the awareness, time and scale. So as we have gotten to be bigger now around 53 markets, our ability to market nationwide is much more efficient, and to build a brand and do creative and all that stuff is way more efficient than it would have been, say, two years ago when we were more restricted in what we could spend and we were doing it on a local level. So listen, we aspire to be a verb. We want everyone to start their home process with open door to be very top of mind. But as we've been in markets for longer, we've seen awareness increase, and that does actually, frankly, drive some conversion for us too. And we want to be more top of mind.
Right. I'm sure your market share is well above 1% in some of your most mature markets.
没错。我相信在你们最成熟的市场中,你们的市场份额肯定超过了1%。
It is. You know, if you, we published, I think, in the last shoulder letter, but if you go look at last year, there are markets we've been in, say, you know, six, seven, eight years, and that was at 4% market share last year. We have relatively younger markets that we were open in 2021, and that was at 70 basis points. And so just, again, with time and maturity and awareness, we're able to kind of build it to share. Part of that is brand awareness. People just understanding that there's an option. And part of it also is building this retention of customers who have been coming to us over time. You may not be a true seller today. You do want to understand the value of your home. But we're going to keep you in our system. We're going to engage with you. We're going to talk to you. In those markets with 4% share, we've had as much as 40% of the homeowners in that market come to us, give us their address, tell us about their home. But those younger markets say 20% of those customers. So, again, having that retained base of customers continue to drive future contract volumes is also another driver of growth.
Right. The value just compounds over time. Maybe shifting gears a little bit and talking about financials. So, Open Door has a goal of achieving adjusted net income profitability by 2024. Are you on track to achieve that? What are the actions that you're taking to make progress toward that goal? And what conditions are you assuming in the housing market to hit that target?
We're entirely focused on getting back to break even. We want to be back to a position where we're self-sustaining. Right. And then we can decide from there how fast you grow, what else you invest in. But getting back to, for us, what we call adjusted net income positive is the goal for next year. And the entire Oregon is geared to that goal. What do we have to be to do that? One is, let's just make one caveat that the macro can't go way backwards. Okay. So, a relatively stable environment. What kind of end right now from a home pricing standpoint?
I made my comment about market volumes already. They can still be depressed and that's not going to impact our ability to get back to that level. We need to be at a $10 billion kind of steady state revenue run rate to be at that level. And again, we need to double our volumes from where we are today. 1,000 home acquisitions per month, getting back to say 2,200. And we'll stay tight on cost. And just continue to execute. And it's really not any more complicated than that. And they said the whole organization is pretty resolute, but that's what we're getting back to next year.
That's great. And you know, you have seen the improved profitability in some of your New York cohorts already. Right. Union economics improved last quarter with contribution margins, on newly acquired homes reaching 10.6%. You also revised your contribution margin target to 5 to 7% in the past quarter. You know, what's been driving that growth is that the benefits from home price appreciation and some of these newly acquired cohorts perhaps because of the wide and spreads. Is it some of the adjacent services? You know, what's the trajectory for contribution margin for the rest of the year? Q3 can't come fast.
Well, we're in it now, but it can't come fast enough when we get to talk about it because we know that that's the affliction point for us to get back to positive contribution margins. And that has everything to do with the transition away from the old book and back to basically the new book, a healthy new book of inventory and that's showing up in the margins. You mentioned the new book performing really well in Q2, 10.6% contribution. Two parts of that is we've continued to focus on better price accuracy and operating efficiencies that showed up in the cohort. And the other piece of it was home price appreciation definitely outperformed our underwriting. And we underwrote those homes.
It was a moment of really peak uncertainty. We were careful in how we underwrote those homes and HPA outperformed and that shows up in the 10.6%. We do expect that over the course of the year, we will get to our 5 to 7% target by Q4. And that's just a function of those cohorts selling through overtime and back to our targets. We did as you noted, we took our target margins up this year from the 4 to 6% annual target we've always talked about to 5 to 7%. And the reason for that was twofold was like, I guess, one was we should and two was we could.
We should because it speaks to having a more durable business and we want to get back to break even on a cash flow basis. And two, we believe we could. We were very focused on this 100 basis points of incremental costs. In 2023, we've got a big chunk of that. We'll get the rest of that. And that allowed us to take our margin targets up. So we're very focused on like, what can we do to improve the business in durable ways? And that really allowed us to raise our target margin.
Great. Maybe working our way down past contribution margin. Could you talk a little bit about Open Doors, current funding structure, the capacity, the cost of that? How has the funding environment and the risk of extending holding periods, extended holding periods, affected how you think about the optimal funding channel and mix and business model?
Yeah. And then we feel actually really good about our current funding structure both today and going forward. If you kind of think about all the components, one on the balance sheet side, we have about a billion, six apparent capital. And within that is a billion, two of unrestricted cash and a little under $300 million of equity invested at home that hopefully over time, we'll try and decash. So we're well capitalized in just in terms of parent capital. And then on the debt side, we have about $2.5 billion of term loans that are fixed rate. We like what those are priced right now.
And if you think about, again, back to this $10 billion steady state revenue number, can you finance it? It might be in your questions. And we turn our inventory three times a year, just with those facilities alone, that gets us back to that break even target. We have another $5 billion of revolver capacity that we're not using right now, given that our inventory levels are low, but they're available to us. So as we rescale the business, as we grow, we can tap into those two, should we need to. So we feel very, very good about our funding capacity. We also feel very good about just the state room with our lenders. Our team's done a great job since really inception about building these lender relationships, being very purposeable about creating staggered and ruling charities, were diversified across 30 lenders. We wrote through COVID with them. They didn't blink. We've been for 2022 with them. They've been fine. And so we feel really good about how our positioned.
That's great. I was wondering if you could just talk about what your holding period looks like today and how does that compare to your target holding period? Obviously, at the industry level, home sales, velocity and volume has been lower than it was in 2021. So how do you think about the holding period? It's interesting. Home market volumes are certainly down a lot, right? 4 million homes plus or minus right now trading, but still 4 million homes. But against a backdrop, maybe last year, like six, right? So they've come down a lot. What people don't talk maybe as much as that. Actually, when I think about velocity, I think about what is the rate by which homes are selling and against that constrained supply and not much new listing inventory coming to the market. Homes are actually selling really fast. We do not have a home selling problem. The industry doesn't have a home selling problem. So the home builders are doing so? Well, even on the existing homes, if you think about, we track market clearance and it's like how many homes that are listed go under contract every single day. And right now in Q2, that was 3%. So 3% of every homes that were listed were going to contract every single day. If you look back over, say 2016 to 2020, kind of normal times, right? I'll strip that 21, 22, that number would have been 1 to 2%. So actually, the velocity transactions is very healthy. So we feel good about that. So again, the industry doesn't have like a home selling problem. They kind of have an inventory problem. But against that backdrop of a low inventory, homes are selling. There's still 4 million people moving.
You mentioned at the onset that you guys are doing a lot in terms of cost-discipline and operating efficiencies. I think the annual run rate op-ex has gone from a peak of $800 million in Q2 to about $400 million today. So just a tremendous amount of savings that you guys have been able to realize. Could you talk a little bit more about your outlook for op-ex and where most of those cost efficiencies and last year were realized? Do you ever worry that you cut too much, cut the bone? Or was that kind of very effective cost savings that you guys were able to bring out?
Yeah, I think we did a lot. We went from $100 to $400, you said. That was a significant amount of retrenchment of cost. We talked about op-ex for us. It includes marketing. It includes variable S, G and A. It tends to be more tethered to volumes. It includes our fixed cost structure. And we went after all three. I'd say today we're, you know, and we got into Q3, we'll be at $100 million a quarter. That feels about right for where we're at right now. And the next year as we get back to the $10 billion number, we've said like op-ex should be in a 4 to 5% of revenue range. That would be $400 to $500 million. So it suggests that some of that will come back in the system, but certainly not all of it. I mean, a lot of, again, we've been very focused on when we cut costs, we want to do so in a durable way, where it had come from. It came from a lot of headcount. We did have a significant reduction in force, a lot against the more volume driven sides of our business. And then I would say just a lot of good old-fashioned cost-cutting. You know, here's an example. We didn't have a procurement, a significant procurement effort, you know, say 18 months ago. We do now. And we just scrutinized everything. And when you go for a moment in 2022, you look at every line at them. And we've done that. And I feel like a lot of that will stick.
Great. I do want to talk about some of Open's initiatives beyond traditional eye buying. You know, one is open door exclusives. You talked a little bit about some of the opportunities in variable S&A. And I know that exclusives, in some instances, can really help with that as well, just because of the absence of buyers commissions that need to be paid if you're helping to connect with an institutional investor.
So maybe you could just, you know, describe Open Door exclusives in more detail. How important is it? You know, what are the long-term plans there?
或许你可以更详细地描述一下Open Door的独家服务。它有多重要呢?长期计划又是什么呢?
Yeah. So if you think about our business today, we're an on-balance sheet business, right? You come to us. We buy the home. We take it on balance sheet. We're a dealer business. And the evolution of business, if you need to look at the Series A pitch deck to keep me honest, the grand mission was always over time to build the first-party business, but over time to basically create a marketplace business. And what do you need to have a marketplace business? You need density. You need buyer liquidity.
So we've done the first part pretty well. We'll continue to grow the first-party business. But for us, exclusives is basically fulfilling, you know, the broker side of the business. And how do we put buyers and sellers together in a way that is more capital-like, more capital-efficient, and allows us to address more sellers, right? We want to turn anyone away because our spreads are unattractive. We want to be able to offer a solution to all sellers.
So a seller comes to us. Obviously, we're transacting with lots of buyers in the market. We should be able to match them up. We have gone after this right now in one market because we want to perfect it before we scale it. We're focused on plano and surrounding areas.
Today, someone comes to us and they get a cash offer and we ask if they would put their home in the marketplace and give us time to basically come up with offers that will beat our cash offer. Great. You know, we'll give you a buyer that we know is in the market looking for your three-bedroom, two-bath home. We can give you an offer from a REIT. And if it's better, that's great for the seller. That's what we're trying to build. It's going to take time though. We're not doing it in a moment where I'd say the macro is necessarily a great tailwind, right? For all the reason we talked about, sellers aren't really kind of coming out of the woodwork quite yet. And we want to be deliberate about how we scale it. So it'll take some time, but it's something that we're focused on delivering over the long-term. It's a perfect complement to our existing 1P business. We should have it over time.
Right. That's all super interesting. And you guys have done a great job building out that home seller density. Maybe you can just talk a little bit more about what you're doing on that prospective home buyer side from institutional buyers like REITs or single-family rentals or perhaps investors that want to do a fix and flip or a short-term rental. What is that side of the equation? In terms of us working with that universal buyers or us?
Yeah, that universal buyers to allow you to drive a transaction in a more capital efficient way where it's not a 1P transaction.
是的,这个通用买家让您以更加资本高效的方式推动交易,而不是一对一的交易。
Well, it's interesting as you think about building a marketplace, right? I just talked about you need a lot of buyer density. The good news is there's like 60 rates to go talk to. We know all of them because we do business with the vast, vast majority of them today. We've been doing that for many, many years and we have great longstanding relationships. So that piece of the marketplace is easier. And then the consumers, you want obviously thousands and thousands and thousands of millions of consumers like individual consumers on the buyer side, harder to get, will come with time. Right. But those relationships, they're really longstanding for us. We have moments where maybe we can't fulfill a seller's valuation desires, but we can marry them with a REIT. So we've been doing that for a long time.
Great. I was wondering if you talk a little bit about the progress that you're making in Tylen Mortgage and any other, any other, any other, any other, that you may be pursuing.
Yeah. I love our Tylen Mortgage business. It took our Tylen F-code business. It is the little engine that could, that we don't talk about so much. It is, it attaches at, you know, well north of 80% on both sides of the transaction for us. We own it vertically integrated. It's got amazing CSAT scores. And we'll continue to just invest in it from a technology standpoint. Certainly AI has a lot to offer that business over time. It's still a relatively paper intensive business that deserves to have some AI attached to it. So we'll continue that into drive more profitability in that business over time, but it's pretty optimized actually. Team has done a really good job there.
We are further behind on mortgage. We fulfill that today through a partnership. And over time though, I mean, medium term I'd say, we really want to make sure that we are fulfilling more on the services side, but it really has not been in 23, 2022, a core focus of ours. Sure. That's totally fair.
I do want to leave time for audience questions, but before I open it up for Q&A, maybe I'll just sneak one more in. And it's one about market performance. What are some of the most attractive regions for I buying today? As you think about growing the business, do you see opportunities to get deeper in your current markets or expand into other markets? How do you think about market expansion in the near to mid-term?
Yeah, I mean, against this, you know, $2 trillion market we've been talking about today when we define our buy box. And by the way, buy box means what are the universal homes that you think you can underwrite with a reasonable level of accuracy? And for us, it's defined by price point. It could be year of the home. It could be a zip code. I mean, there's all sorts of parameters to define our buy box. But today we can underwrite about $2 trillion. About a third, $650 billion is our addressable market in our existing footprint, our 53 market. So we have a lot of headroom. We have a lot to go after. You know, we just focused on our existing footprint alone of the 650. There's a lot to go get. If you think about our earlier conversation around market share and we just focus on that 650 and we can take every market to that 4% level, that's a $26 billion volume business. But certainly over time, we want to continue to pursue additional buy box expansion, additional markets with love nationwide coverage. We took a beat in 23 in 2022 for good reason. But again, as we get back in 2024, we'll start to kind of pursue those things again.
Great. Any questions from the audience? I've got one over here, please. I think this is the library that more on that 5% talk about. Where do you win and which customers is attractive for? And when you talked about the markets where you had like 4% share, but I think 40% share. But I think 40% you said would come and talk to you. Like, why doesn't that confer it at a higher rate?
Yeah, I might forget some of those. So what kind of buyer comes to us for the first question? Honestly, they just look like the average American home seller. Like our average consumer is buying an average price point home. Average is varied a little bit by market, but we want to be at that part of the distribution curve that has the most liquidity, the most velocity. They look a little bit younger. They're a little bit more double income and kids. Probably a little more time-star. They need our product more. They look pretty average. That's it. They really look like they're not some tail type of customer type. It's really like the average American home seller.
Why do more people like this? Oh, so why the 4% share versus the 40% have come to us over time? Listen, I think, first of all, a lot of people come to us and we're delighted. You come to us, you get a free cash offer, and you can understand the true value of your home. We do not sell that lead. We do not spam and send you off to a bunch of realtors. We keep in our system, and we continue to educate you about how your home values change over time. And they engage very frequently with us. They want to know how to refresh their offer, what's happened to it. And that actually drove 70% of our contract last quarter. People who had previously asked for an offer and then just re-engages over a subsequent period of time.
I think that 40% to the 4% is curiosity. It's great. The more people we can cover in a market, it's great for us. We'll convert them over time. We look at everyone as a future home seller. Maybe not today, but in the future.
Just to pull up on that question, the 40% that do check the prices, do you have a sense based on servo work or competitive survey or analyses, what percentage of them actually ended up selling their home and measure conversion that way? I imagine especially in this environment, you're not losing to them selling to somebody else. Like a competitor. It's probably they just didn't end up selling their home.
One of the things we talk about is what is a true seller. And the way we define a true seller is someone who actually is going to sell because we track if they don't take an offer from us that they requested. They actually sell elsewhere, which means they listed their home within 60 days. So that's what we track to figure out where they went and what else we're in. Did our offer compare and do we do better or worse in their expectations at the time? I can't quite correlate the 40% to the true seller number to you, but we do track that.
Their alternative is that they don't take an offer from us. They either sit on it and they don't do anything, right? We retain in the system or they typically just list on the market.
You mentioned before that you pull back a marketing when the spreads wider as it is now. Is there a spread at which you see a really big change in perception of the product and the offer? And you've seen not as a buy of last resort, but as a facilitator of friction reducer?
Yeah, there's a without giving away all the secret sauce. There's a point on the curve where the buyer is very elastic, right? And so we're able to come down on spreads and we see a lot more demand. And so the difference between, yes, the answer is short answers. And we understand that curve really well because we've been doing it now for a decade. So we understand that relationship really well.
Carrie, we have a follow-up for there. Just one more question. In terms of the spreads, just where are you now in terms of capturing the full spread from the home seller versus alternative players in the industry, like mortgage, title?
Back in the day, you guys used to talk about how you could have a deal with Comcast or like Dish or somebody to monetize additional services so that the consumer would be paying less. Apologies if you've talked about this and I was just like, what would love an update there?
Yeah, so that's all about how much are we doing in terms of ancillary services, which we want more of today. It's really title and it's mortgage. And those provide an offset to spread. So the extent that that title, that transaction is coming with title, I can use that to reduce my spread. I can use it to reduce, mortgage is coming. I can also reduce it. So we're focused on those things over time. The roadmap over time is to be able to do all the things you talked about. I should be able to sell you home insurance, a warranty. I'd love to move you. I'm in your home and painting it already. I'd like to make that maybe I can personalize it for you. It doesn't have to be in soju, white. Maybe it can be a house cut in the color of your choice. So there's lots of things we can do on the ancillary side. But again, the watch word for 22 or 23 is that it worked out really well so far. So medium term, we want to get back to the services roadmap. It just hasn't been a core area of focus for us.
Earlier in our discussion, you mentioned some of the partnerships, and you guys have expanded the Asian Access Program. You guys went live with a Zillow partnership in 25 markets. I was just wondering if you could talk about those in a little bit more detail and the strategic role.
Some of the partnerships that are really important for two reasons. One is they allow us to basically distribute to more customers. And two, we can do it in a way that's very attractive from a customer acquisition cost standpoint because their economics are fixed. And as you said, it's across all three vectors.
So for homebuilders, even in relationships with them, I'm 90 homebuilders now for about six years. And that's a perfect trade in customer for us, right? You're at the showroom on the weekend. You want to buy a new home. You have a home. You have to sell it. You're a contingent buyer. Call open door. We work hand in glove. We can unlock the equity number like in that moment. And we can line up the closing dates. So that's a great relationship for us.
The other component is agents, which has been very successful for us. I think we said last quarter. We didn't break down the actual contribution from agents, but we were seeing massive repeat business from agents. And we are creating these programs like the Agent Access Program to incentivize and reward agents who are doing repeat business. About half of them, frankly, we work with, have done business with us prior.
The unlock with agents is that they really think about the business. And I actually was sitting in this meeting with one of the major brokerages in the country. And they said something that was amazing, which is as fiduciaries, our job is to avail our customer of all of our choices, right? And you're not doing your job. You don't show up at that meeting with an open door offer, which might be their backstop. And this is what listing would look like in yada yada yada. That's music to our ears. So we view us as partners to agents and we're just a tool in the toolkit.
And then we've got the online real estate portals, Zillow, Redfin, Realtor. And again, this is about massively increasing our distribution. You mentioned Zillow. We have a really attractive partnership with them. It's early days. We're super excited about it. 25 markets now. And that's just, you know, if you're online and you're looking at real estate, like a lot of us do late night and you're thinking about maybe you want to list your home and call an agent. Up pops open door. You want to cash offer? So it's very synergistic. So again, it's about increasing the scope of distribution at a very attractive cack for us.